Sorry these chapters are slow and uneventful but I have to have some room in between Rose getting her wedding dress and the actual wedding... and Odair babies. ;D
Escaping the yelling Carter, Eden stood in front of Rose and pushed her into his office. They took the stairs up to a sitting room. A card table was set up with folding chairs and a light bulb hung above it.
"Yeah don't look at this" Eden rushed almost laughing at her expression, he opened a tall dark wooden door and ushered her threw it. They stood in the narrow living room, taking it in. The left wall was all exposed brick; the back wall had two long windows with window seats built into them. The right wall was white but had two more windows allowing the light to illuminate the room. Rose turned around to see the wall behind her and she was pleased to see the walls expand into the kitchen. Tripping over her feet, Rose dashed into the kitchen. The wide spiral staircase was cut into the kitchen counters. The left wall was still exposed brick and cabinets made with hand crafted wood, that matched the cabinets below, were on the opposite wall. Eden leaned onto the banister watching her smile and dance. "Excited?"
"It's like playing house!" she squealed and kissed him.
"But it's not pretend" he grinned and took her upstairs. The hallway had enough room to put a couch and a chair, but the main focuses were the five doors. He led her to a small bathroom with an attached laundry room, two small bedrooms, master bedroom and bathroom. All the windows were the same as they were below and the exposed brick was still on the walls to her left. Finally, Eden opened the fifth door and winked. Rose peeked in to find a narrow staircase.
"What?" she whispered and walked up cautiously. Eden held his hand on her back and she smiled, looking back. He held the door open for her and she stepped out onto the roof. A few trees were planted in large pots, there were small planters with vegetables growing in them and a tire swing hung on a bar. She slipped her legs through the tire and spun looking out at the district. Peeta was walking to the bakery with Rye on his shoulder; her mom was standing in front of their house with Mrs. Odair, Emma and Bryce were walking hand in hand towards the forest and Bryce stopped to kiss the girl on the cheek, Eden was looking out towards the forest across the street where Katniss and her dad were running into. "This is amazing!" she laughed and slid through the circle of the tire, running into his arms.
"Good I'm glad you like it" They walked back to the room outside the loft and sat in the folding chairs looking at the paint chips, turns out that agreeing on one color was harder than they thought. The engaged couple had been sitting for an hour just deciding if the kitchen and living room should be wallpaper or a green paint, they picked a warm light brown paint. "You know what?" Eden said clearly frustrated and tired.
"What?" she asked.
"I'm going to get some things from my house then I'll come home and mix the paint" he pushed his seat back. "Will you watch the shop for me?"
"Sure" she smiled but it faded, "Isn't Carter watching it?"
"I'm taking Car with me, I don't trust him to be alone with you" he almost growled. Rose shrunk, and Eden noticed. "I didn't mean I don't trust you and him" he smiled. "I don't know what he might pull if I weren't here- catch my drift?" He kneeled in front of her and captured her lips with his. "I love you"
"I love you too" she smiled and pushed him a little. He chuckled and ran down the stairs with her not far behind. Rose stepped around a cardboard box and leaned against counter. She picked up a pencil and tapped it, making a small rhythm until the door clinked open and hit the bell. A tall girl walked in with short brown hair and blond highlights. She had on jeans, green sweatshirt and black tennis shoes. "Hi Lucy" Lucy was Eden's ex-girlfriend before Rose; she had heard that Lucy comes into the shop a lot to flirt with him.
"Oh- Hi Rosie" She said looking into the back of the shop. "Eddy here?" she asked her tone of voice hopeful and high pitched.
"No he just left" Rose said mocking her tone of voice. Lucy glared daggers.
"And he left you to watch the shop?" she smirked.
"Of course he went home with Carter to grab some things for the place upstairs" Rose mentally cursed herself for not saying our place upstairs. Lucy sputtered.
"He's moving upstairs?" she was grinning now and tried to look into the back.
"Yeah I'm surprised you didn't know" Lucy stopped and wiped around.
"Why?" she demanded.
"Well I would have hoped that Eden would find a different place now that he's engaged" Rose snickered and tried to act as innocent as could be. Lucy was surprised you could easily tell because her smile vanished into thin air.
"He is engaged?" the brown haired girl hissed and walked right up to the counter.
"It was in the paper" she shrugged and looked at her chipping blue fingernails.
"Who is he engaged to?" Lucy asked in the same venomous voice.
"Me" Rose answered happily, smiling as nice as she could. The door clicked and the bell chimed. Lucy spun around fast but she wasn't looking into caramel eyes. "Butter Scotch" Rose smiled.
"You never fail me with your nicknames, Flower Bed" Scott smiled and looked over at Lucy. "What's got you fuming, boiler?"
"Boiler?" Lucy huffed and stomped out of the shop.
"It fumes!" Scott yelled.
"Steams" Rose corrected and pushed her hair out of her eyes. "What can I help you with Cot?" she wondered and held her head on top of her hands.
"Nothing, it's my shift" he winked and moved her out from behind the counter. "You know this could have been us" Scott said after a while of complete silence.
"What?" she asked looking up at him from the box she was sitting on.
"The engagement and everything" he muttered and looked out the store windows.
"No Scooter" she sighed, "You're more of a brother and we don't get along like that"
"Guess you're right, picked your last petal and it said 'she loves you not'" she laughed.
"Seriously where do you come up with these things?" she beamed. He tapped his head.
"It's all in my brain" Rose stopped laughing and pulled a straight face,
"You have one of those?" Scott lifted her up and spun her around laughing.
"What are you doing?" They both stopped laughing and Rose was set on her feet in a moment. Eden was standing in the doorway; lips pressed together eyebrows smashed together, holding a few boxes in his arms. Carter was behind him looking bored. Rose blushed.
"We weren't doing anything- just joking" she stuttered and looked over at Scott who had gone pale white.
"I didn't mean to upset you E.D. I meant no harm" Rose had heard that before but sputtering out of Eden's mouth.
"Just… get out of here" Eden sighed and moved out of the doorway and towards Rose. She had heard that too but out of her father's mouth.
"Scotterfly doesn't have to leave" Rose announced and stared straight into Eden's eyes. "He. Did. Nothing. Wrong" she said each word slowly making sure everyone heard it. "I told him he had no brain" she shrugged and walked toward the back of the store, "I had to be spun" Scott and Carter had to cough to cover their laughs and even Eden had to crack a smile and apologize to Scott after Rose was upstairs.
So you got their relationship backgrounds. ALSO you might have picked up on this but Carter and Eden aren't really friends and Eden doesn't trust Rose to be by herself with him. Doesn't that strike you odd? hmm?
Erin(:
